IT SEEMS like loads of savings are to be had this summer from Panorama Holidays with prices from as low as 199 per week per person and from 650 for a family of two adults and one child.

Last year's price, for example, for a twoweek holiday to Club Praia Da Rocha on the Algarve for two adults and two children has been cut from 1,535 to 1,129. Offering a choice of 345 different properties in 19 destinations you'll find all the old favourites there . . . Greece, Turkey, Portugal, Spain, the Canaries and the Balearics . . . but Panorama are also featuring some new destinations for summer 2006 so you can also opt for Egypt, Florida and Corfu where, in the latter destination, Panorama will be the only Irish tour operator offering the northern resorts of Sidari and Kassiopi.

The well-trodden resort of Kusadasi in Turkey will also feature for the first time in Panorama's programme this summer.

Check out www. panoramaholidays. ie or call 0818 202020.

Early booking with Falcon brings special rewards

FALCON Holidays are dangling all sorts of 'carrots' in terms of early booking in relation to their programme for summer 2006. Free child places, free apartment upgrades and free grandparents' places are some of the incentives set to encourage bookings before 9 February.

And there's an additional 'lowest price guarantee' for anyone who books their holiday before 31 January. New for this year are the resorts of Estoril and Cascais on the coast near Lisbon. Contact www. falconholidays. ie or 1850 453545.

Design Hotels expand service to 41 countries

ANYONE with a penchant for the hip minimalism of the Design Hotels will be pleased to hear that they have added 11 new members to their portfolio bringing it up to a 2006 level of 137 member hotels across 41 different countries.

Featuring for the first time this year are places like the Lanchid 19 in Budapest, two Barcelona hotels . . . Granados 83 and Grand Hotel Central, the Elysian in Bali, the Levante Parliament in Vienna and the Park in New Delhi. To check out the membership, the prices and to make bookings, contact www. designhotels. com or telephone 00800 37468357.